Unless the dog bites you when you are sick, an injection may not save you.
Just treat the wound in time and wash it with water and soap.
Huge profits in the injection industry. It is absolutely necessary for you to ask the doctor for an injection.
I remember answering similar questions. I'll copy them again.
In fact, this injection problem has been unscientific magnified, no matter what the purpose is. The public should know the truth, so there will be less prejudice against dogs.
The authoritative statement of the Rabies Research Center of the World Health Organization, referred to as "WHO", is like this.
1. Healthy dogs (cats and other animals) are not poisonous. ("Highly toxic" is a medical term, which means "infectious". "Non-toxic" here means that even if cats and dogs carry rabies virus, they are not contagious before they get sick. (no need for an injection)
2. The pathogenesis of rabies virus is that the virus attacks animal brain cells and causes rabies attacks. At this time, animals will have very obvious abnormalities and are easy to identify. At this time, the saliva of animals is toxic (virus) and contagious. If you are bitten by such animals, you must get rabies vaccine.
3. Dogs (cats) only use poison after rabies attacks. Only when a warm-blooded animal with rabies symptoms bites, it is possible to spread rabies virus to people through saliva. At this time, you need to take rabies prevention.
4. Warm-blooded animals such as dogs and cats die within 3 to 4 days after the onset of rabies. Therefore, only 3-4 days before its death is the infectious period, and it is very dangerous to be bitten. Even if you are bitten, 10 days later, this cat and dog died of rabies, you don't have to worry, because when you were bitten, you were not in the infectious period. (10 day is the safety observation period specially extended by the World Health Organization)
5. If you are bitten by a warm-blooded animal such as a dog (cat) and have obvious disease symptoms and abnormal behavior of a healthy cat (dog), you should inject rabies vaccine immediately after being bitten, and observe the cat (dog) that bit you. If the cat or dog doesn't die of rabies within 10 days, you can stop the rabies vaccine and judge that you are not infected with rabies at all.
6. Rabies has an incubation period. According to the detailed study of the World Health Organization, most of them are from 20 days to February, and the longest is 6 years. As for some cases in China, the World Health Organization expressed doubts. There is no evidence of long-term latent cases in the world, and infectious disease medical experts think it may be misdiagnosis or secondary exposure (medical terminology, secondary transmission).
7. Rabies vaccination can be delayed. (If you have been bitten for 6 years, you can rest assured. If you are not at ease, you can get another rabies vaccine, which is equivalent to an exposure (the first bite).
PS:
Now China has formed a huge industrial chain of rabies vaccination profiteering. It is not excluded that organizations at all levels, drug dealers, the media and some irresponsible medical circles intentionally create panic and obtain improper benefits, especially the medical circles bear great responsibility!